Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Aidan O'Connell elicited praise from inside and outside of the organization based on his performance in the preseason and previously in place of an absent Jimmy Garoppolo.
"O'Connell impressed enough in the preseason that some in the Raiders building believed he should have been playing much earlier than Week 9," ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported. "One high-ranking NFL evaluator who saw O'Connell's Week 4 start vs. the Chargers said O'Connell can see the field from the pocket and is accurate to the first- and second-levels of the field."
That evaluator added that O'Connell "throws a catchable ball and has toughness.